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Radio 1 shortening songs

Just listening to Matt Edmonson in for Scott Mills and the first 4 songs have finished by 13.10, including 2 songs finished in the first 4 minutes. I've never noticed them shortening songs like Kiss before. Will it be a regular thing I wonder?

It's been happening for a long time. One of the local commercial stations I would sometimes listen to in the 80's had a tag line saying something like 'more songs than anyone else' but the way they did this was by only playing about two minutes or so of each song.

It seems this Radio 1 shortening songs business has been extended to everyday of the week. It used to be just Friday to Sunday they did this. It can be really annoying when it's a good song that I know well.

I still remember when we used to tech op the Top 20 on SGR on a Saturday lunchtime which would always be out on timings. The tech op just before me at the time playing 8 seconds of the Number 1 which to be fair was a result as it was My Heart Will Go On.

I'm just starting a Country based radio show and subscribe to a song mailing service for singles - recently I've been sent three versions of certain songs, of various lengths, including a short edit of around two minutes. I am assuming they'd rather get some airplay, than none at all!